The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05
Weekly News Summary.

The slate business is improving IN the
southern part of the state
JOHN ID. WILCOX has been appointed
postmaster at Stockbridge.
DAVID BUCHANAN of Cavendish was killed
by a falling tree while chopping wood
RUTLAND village talks of extending its
corporate limits half mile each way
HARRY HouLroN, Jr, of Bratteboro fell
down stairs and fractured his knee-pan.
REV. w. III. STEWART is supplying the
pulpit of the Baptist church in Andover.
THE Board of Agriculture held successful
meetings at West Concord Dec 90 and %.
COLONEL A. b. JEwETT and Captain
Hawley of Swanton have gone to Florida.
The annual meeting of the American In
stitute of Instruction will be held in Bur
lington July 6-S
A NEW traverse sled brake, invented by
two Burlington men, has been successfully
tested in that city.
REV. LEWIS CIRCUIT pastor of the church
in Sudbury, received a gold-headed cane
for Christmas present.
GEORGE HAsLETT of Barton has sold his
stallion, " Black Eagle Patchen," to Cana
dian parties for 81 900.
THE notorious " blocks" at st. Adams
were burned Sunday night and several
families made homeless
THE estate of the late George j. Brooks
of Brattleboro is estimated at 100000. He
wills liberal sum for the public library.
S. NJ. PORE. for many years cashier of the
Merchants National Bank of Burlington,
died on Sunday, aged seventy-two years.
THE Burlington carnival will open Feb
ruary II and close the Friday evening fol-
lowing. Programme about the same as last
year.
REV. JOSEPH FREEMAN DID, more than
eighty-four years old, has been engaged to.
preach for year to the Baptist church in
Colchester
MEAGHER, the supposed Bennington muir
derer, was not arrested at White River
Junction, as reported, and his whereabouts
are unknown.
DIPHTHERIA is doing its dreadful work in
the towns about St. JOhnSbury Hardly an
issue of this paper but what records several
deaths.-Cdicdonidn
AT the recent dedication of the Methodist
church at South Franklin a member of the
first class, which was formed nearly seventy
years ago, was present.
f. w. MCGETTRICK. whose nomination
for postmaster at St. Adams was rejected
by the senate, is acting as special agent for
the treasury department under Collector
Smalley.
THE Owl Club minstrels of st. Adams are
to give an entertainment about the middle
of this month. They expect to give enter
tainments in Burlington, Rutland and Og-
densburg during the season.
Hon. l.. II. THOMPSON of Irasburgh sailed
from New York December % on the Gu
nard steamer Urania for Liverpool. He
intends to 90 thence at once to Southern
Italy to remain during the winter.
Miss ALICE WALKER of South London
derry, seventeen years of age and recently
a teacher in one of the public schools, has
been in a partially conscious state and has
not opened her eyes since December 81
COLLECTOR SMALLEY announces the APP
pointment of Clarence f. Spaulding of
Bradford to be deputy collector and in
spector at Newport, and Thomas Keefe of
Windsor to the same Office at st. Adams.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: Edison S.
Dinsmore of Vermont, so long the sergeant
in charge of the White House has obtained
a divorce from Emma A. Dinsmore to
whom he was married at Tunbridge in 1865"
AN exhibition car from the Canadian Pa
citc railway, containing specimens of Mani
toba products, will be shown at Bellows
Falls for three days, beginning January 8,
and it is expected that the car will then go
to Rutland.
JULIAN SCOTT, the artist, has a life-size
portrait of the late General Stannard 1t is
suggested that it might be well for the sol
diers of the state to secure it and have 1t
placed either in the state capitol or sol
diers home.
RAILROAD men say that never before at
this season of the year was the freight traf
NC SO heavy over l1lt AtDlGdl NtTlnOnl.
Passenger locomotives are being made to do
double work, so that more motive power can
be used in hauling freight.
THE many friends of the venerable Josiah
futile of Essex, who is well and favorably
known throughout the state, will regret to
learn that he is still confined to his room by
severe illness, and his ultimate recovery is
not anticipated Messenger.
JOHN PoRTEoUs, who for some time was
the general freight agent of the Grand
Trunk railway, has been appointed general
manager of through freight traffic for the
Central Vermont line, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Lansing Mills.
Miss ALICE NJ, daughter of j. w. Guern-
sey of Rutland, has been engaged as editor
of The Young CrUSdder, about to be started
by the Woman's Christian Temperance
Publishing Association, which also pub
fishes the Union Stgndi the organ of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Mrs. H. X. IDE, installing officer of the
Vermont Woman's Relief Corps, formed
two new corps last week-one at Newport
to be known as the Baxter Corps, and one
at Burke, to be known as the Rattery
Corps. This makes a total of twenty-eight
corps in the state, gain OF twenty-four
during the last two years
JANUARY meetings of the State Board of
Agriculture will be held as follows: Putney,
January and .; Chester, and 6 Pittsford,
and Z; North Ferrisburgh and Shelburn,
u and a. in connection with the Dairy
mems Association and at East Burke, Is, 10,
20 and 81; Enosburg, North Hero and some
other place not yet determined, 25-2S.
A BURLINGTON resident announces the
discovery that the legislature, in changing
the prohibition law so that any resident of
the county could sign a complaint issued in
any town of that county, instead of confn-
ing il to taxpayers of the town, as was the
case before, repealed that section which
authorized seizures of liquor to be made by
an officer without warrant.
THE commissioners to erect monuments
for Vermont on the battlefield of Gettys-
burg met at Rutland Thursday. 1t was
decided best to take immediate action, so
that the monuments may be dedicated on
the next anniversary of the battle. The
commission voted to start January "a for
the field and General w. Y. w. Ripley and
Colonel w. G. Veazey were appointed to
arrange for the transportation. The trip
will last six days.
AS finally constituted, the commission tC
determine how much and whose land shall
be taken for the site and grounds of the
Bennington battle monument consists OF
Ex-Governor j. l.. Barstow, Lieutenant
governor l.. X. Fuller, Colonel Aldace f
Walker, Ex-Governor Horace Fairbanks
and the president of the Monument Asso
citation, Governor Fairbanks takes the
place of Hon. l.. ii. Thompson of Irasburgh
who declined the appointment. The com